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Amir Javanshir wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to submit a new project request and hopefully get a sponsor.
>
> Project Name:
> HAR (Hardware Activity Reporter)
>
> Project Description
>
> The goal of this project is to develop a performance monitoring tool
> that samples hardware counters in the system (primarily cpu counters,
> but could extend to bus counters) to produce higher-level metrics (eg,
> mips, flops, cache miss, stall rate, bus utilization) which can guide
> a bottleneck analysis and performance tuning process. There exists a
> first release of HAR, developed internally at Sun, that only looks at
> cpu counters and supports currently only UltraSPARC1-4 (not 4+) &
> Pentium3 systems. The open-sourcing of the existing HAR code has been
> approved by Sun. There are a few users of HAR out there that keep
> asking for newer releases (eg eBay) and support for recent hardware.
> The purpose of open-sourcing HAR is to provide a proper place for the
> continued development & dissemination of HAR. The primary task will be
> to port HAR to Solaris 10 and libcpc2 so Niagara, AMD and modern Intel
> processors can be supported.
>
> Related Projects
>
> There are no known related projects or dependencies. HAR will build
> directly on top of libcpc2 for accessing cpu counters. Access to bus
> counters has not been researched yet.
>
> Current Team
>
> We are already 3 engineers working on this subject
>
> Cheers,
> Amir Javanshir
>
>
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